{"id":32191,"date":"2018-10-29T12:59:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T07:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32191"},"modified":"2018-10-29T12:59:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T07:29:46","slug":"rainbow-of-hope-for-lgbt-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rainbow-of-hope-for-lgbt-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow of hope for LGBT community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/rainbow-of-hope-for-lgbt-community\/article22399066.ece\"><strong>Rainbow of hope for LGBT community<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s decision to refer to a larger Bench a writ petition to quash Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalises homosexuality, has brought a ray of hope for\u00a0 LGBT community members and activists who have been fighting a long battle for their rights<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14278 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lgtb.jpg?resize=600%2C303\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lgtb.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lgtb.jpg?resize=150%2C76&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lgtb.jpg?resize=300%2C152&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Expert view<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Legal experts said that\u00a0the matter was of utmost social and legal significance and a positive move had been initiated by the court for a re-look into the earlier judgment which, according to them, required reconsideration<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nations who have decriminalized gay sex <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Twenty-six nations \u2014 Australia, Malta, Germany, Finland, Colombia, Ireland, the U.S., Greenland, Scotland, Luxembourg, England and Wales, Brazil, France, New Zealand, Uruguay, Denmark, Argentina, Portugal, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Canada, Belgium, and the Netherlands \u2014 have decriminalised gay sex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainbow of hope for LGBT community Context The Supreme Court\u2019s decision to refer to a larger Bench a writ petition to quash Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalises homosexuality, has brought a ray of hope for\u00a0 LGBT community members and activists who have been fighting a long battle for their rights Expert&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rainbow-of-hope-for-lgbt-community\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rainbow of hope for LGBT community<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}